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Nucs use to do quite small queens. Childrends' games.

When you make an emercency queen, it takes 10 days to emerge. Then it takes another 10 days to start laying. But why to rear in the nuc an emergency queen? You may rear normal queens in a normal hive. Then you make nucs from that hives, which reared the queens. But you myst move the nucs to...

Why you are so in a hurry. Just wait few days.

First problem is that your drones are from defensive genes. I do not know how do you select your mother queens. You may have defensive neighbours, but as you said, your own hives, queens and drones are defensive.

Some count mites and some just kill them

It is better to kill a amall amount mites than to wait that you get a huge amount of mites. Varroa double itself in a month.

Waste of money and human work.

Every year when I carry the hives or nucs into woods. They make their home into the board.

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Carbon diokside in atmosphere begun to rise 300 years ago.

New laying queens apper again if desperate feromonen system continues. And who says that laying worker cannot fly. But old traditions continue, even if scietic base is 20 years old.

I have done it once in my 60 years beekeeper carier. It was 55 years ago.

Yes it does. You must be carefull, when you introduce the queen. Hive uses to kill foreign workers and queens. Nothing magic in it.

Not more difficult than change the queen usually.. In my hives every hive has accepted the gueen. In my hives July has been the best month to give a new queen. In August I may loose 90% out of my queens, because bees do not get nectar from nature Next time is to hive queens when I feed the...

No it does not think that it has a gueen. That thinking is over 20 years old and it is based on fairytales. When the colony is not able to rear a queen, it is " hopelesly queenless". Normal workers' egg tissues staet to swell. Such bees can be 25% out of whole gang. There is no worker queen...

Give to the hive frame on young larvae. Bees start ro rear queen cells and laying workers will be vanished. That shaking magic is from old time when beekeekers did not know what laying worker really is. Same magic continues even if it should be abandoned 20 years ago

Ok, that is new to me. The honey bee policing was foud 20 years ago when I read about worker laying phenomenom.

Laying workers are not always in the hive. Sometimes one out million in queen right colony. But it they are, policing bees destroy the eggs in 24 hours.

In Finland we can buy Italian bees from Italy and Carniolan bees from.Slovenia, and they do well in Finland.

Use your brain. If the nuc is full, honey, brood, bees or something, give more space. What space, you must think it yourself. The colony use to grow and it needs more boxes. What is the reason, that you want to keep the colony in the nuc? It is easier to make the hive bigger in summer than...